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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income … recent stylized facts on growth, distribution and education for the US. …
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A simple classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution is developed in which education transforms low … education can have a positive effect on growth but by altering the distribution of income rather than by fostering technological …-skilled wages and profit income. We analyze the implications for class divisions, growth and distribution, of the transformation of …
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Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but also education, leisure, the stock of knowledge and the quality of the … hand, the stock of knowledge is twice as large, and education is four times as large. So if the true social welfare index … intensive ones, like knowledge, education, and leisure. …
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This paper develops a classical-Marxian macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of … education. First, the role of education in skill formation is considered and it is shown that an expansion in education will … promote growth and have beneficial distributional effects within the working class, but it will redistribute income from …
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, innovations, and the advance of human knowledge-the rate of growth of capacity has slowed. The past quarter century witnessed the …
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The recent revival of Hyman P. Minsky's ideas among policymakers, economists, bankers, financial institutions, and the mass media, synchronized with the increasing gravity of the subprime financial crisis, demands a reappraisal of the meaning and scope of the 'financial instability hypothesis'...
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We provide two ways to reconcile small values of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) that range between 0.35 and 0.5 with empirical evidence that the IES is large. We do this reconciliation using a model in which all agents have identical preferences and the same access to asset...
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impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that …
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight …
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This paper challenges the conventional view according to which disinflations in LAC-even from low and moderate peaks-have been carried out at no cost to output. After suggesting a new methodology that allows for long-lived effects and inflation inertia when measuring costs of disinflations,...
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